We Finished The Main Campaigh Of Gears 5!

 Good morning everyone,

January isn't finished yet, and we've already have six games finished for the 2022 tour.

Last night's stream of course featured heavily around Gears 5 and finishing the campaign, picking up in the middle of ACT III and of course finishing things up with ACT IV. Normally the Gears of War games have 5 acts, but with how opens the areas are, and with the story pacing, having it cut down to four made sense. For the ending, we saved Del and let JD die, because within the context of the story, JD doesn't really say or do anything to redeem himself... plus Del has had Kait's back from the start. The ending of Jack using itself as a targeting beacon to save the day was pretty damn sweet.

Now, everything about how Gears 5 certainly sets up the next game in the series, plus I wouldn't not be surprised if JD turns up as a zombie type enemy in what would be Gears of War 6, as a way to make the decision to save Del to come back back to haunt Kait.

Huge thanks to Iceman and Striker for being apart of the chaotic fun, but we're not done yet, as next week we'll start up the Hivebusters DLC. It said it is supposed to take about three hours, but with us taking out time to search for upgrades and collectables, it may take about six as we tend to take our time.

Of course, Gears 5 was the second half of the stream, the first half featured Forza Horizon 4, and I mostly focused on the Street Scene races to level that up, as well as knocked out a few random stuff along the way. Nothing major, but Forza Horizon 4 does serve as a nice set up for fun multiplayer stuff on Wednesdays!

For the raid, we sent things over to PradoxGamerAU who was doing a Stream Raiders session over at   twitch.tv/pradoxgamerau!

Forza Horizon 4 Achievements

• Crowning Achievement: Purchase a castle.

Gears 5 Achievements

• Pennies from Heaven: Scavenged supplies from all fallen Condors in Act 2 and Act 3
• Cutting it Close: Secured the UIR rocket
• Throw a Switch, See What Happens: Assembled the UIR Hammer of Dawn rocket
• Let's Keep Pissin it Off!: Survived the Kraken fight
• Jack of All Trades: Acquired all of Jack's Ultimate upgrades in Campaign
• Then We Watch Each Other's Back: Planted the last beacon in the Old Ephyra ruins
• Discovered the True Threat to Sera: Completed all Acts of the Campaign (Any difficulty)
• You Know I Ain't Going Out Like That: Got back to the New Ephyra wall

Twitch Clip Links

1. It's what King Kai Drives
2. This is not a Sea Cruise... or even a Tom Cruise! 
3. WHOA!!!!!
4. You wanna drive? 
5. Fahz is on strike!
6. Release The Krakken! 
   

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Left-Right Step Combo, Advanced Combo #2 and Double Combo #2 for 31 minutes and a calorie burn of  564 kcal.

Knocked off another achievement in Capcom Arcade Stadium last night after the stream, which just leaves only more, and it's the one that requires 100 hours of combined game play with any of the games in the collection. The gimmick of using the broken wired controller to simulate several hours of play while working will be a big key towards getting the final achievement.

Capcom Arcade Stadium Achievements

• Hardcore Gamer: Play any of the games a total of 1000 times.
  

Watched 'For A Few Dollars More' last night and of the movies in the Man With No Name trilogy, I would dare say its the weakest of the three, on the ground that the villain is rather one dimensional. The film does has its moment, and the the shooting of the hats scene is rather cool.

For tonight's stream, we'll feature the new content in Star Trek Online and we'll also play Final Fantasy XIV... it'll be a MMO Thursday! That said, as I was setting up OBS to capture STO, turns out Admiral Janeway has been retroactively shoved into the Delta Rising content as the quest giver for several missions... which considering that 99% of the issues in the Delta Quadrant was caused by Janeway seems fitting.

Anyway... on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!